Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).
Important notes:
- I don't use scripts.
- I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
- Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
- Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
- One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
- I don't troll.
WTF is going on here?
EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."
The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477
I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.
The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.
I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.
EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...
Yeah I think big level at the feed, down votes help control what is interesting conversation pieces and not and then in the comments it should be related to how on topic or useful or fun to the conversation presented by the original item.
There is some extremely childish behavior on Lemmy in regards to downvotes and in response to them as well.
Right but if you disagree shouldn't that be vocalized otherwise the downvote doesn't make sense and people don't know what the countering opinion is?
I get it's not everyone's responsibility to respond but... It doesn't really make sense as just a tool to show disagreement and provide diversity in the comments.
But someone making an opinionated statement, sure at the top level the votes just act as a miniature poll but beyond that I'm not sure I see it's usefulness as a conversationary tool.
You can’t expect everyone to voice everything. Someone else probably will at some point, and anyways, seeing downvotes is useful to know that there’s no full consensus
It can also allow you to fact check, to an extent, what’s said
Seeing an high amount of downvotes means you shouldn’t trust what’s written without prior research. It stands for everything, but we don’t have time to check most information we learn nowadays
I do not find upvotes and down votes to be very guaranteed to match facts and using it as a checking tool would require a very different user ase that would likely not be human. But I understand you said to an extent. I just... Give it less slack. But hard down voted, sure, needs way more reservations.
I am just saying the point of these forums is more the conversation and less the voting and it's really not very useful as a tool, while not being useless.
Imagine a substack post, as these forums were based on, where someone asks for support with a batch script and someone suggests using a sticky note taped to the monitor. It gets downvoted but no one offers any countering support.
No one would use the site for support anymore. It's clearly not with helpful information, and the person looking at it would not know but just see what looks like an unkind user base.
Interesting. I particularly think your last point might be really key to the use of voting.
It feels like a way to participate.
I guess it takes all types to make a community and that includes those that don't want to participate at full effort all the time.
Oh shoot forgot to say.
Thanks for the conversation. I feel more, I want to say expanded, in my view on voting and it's usefulness for those that remain more silent than myself.
Oh I am not really one for sarcasm unless for comedic purpose. Hyperbole, sure.
But, I wear my emotions on my sleeves and when I thank someone or tell them off I mean it entirely. I'm here for the conversation and I appreciate you having it with me.